SAP Cloud Platform Reviews

We create applications for other companies to power HR experiences. Mostly somewhat complicated web applications, so that's where we use the SAP Cloud Platform. The web applications may have standard backend launches and use front-end technologies such as React or even the conventional SAP WiFi, so we use the SAP Cloud Platform for those cases.

Though I'm not a massive fan of the SAP Cloud Platform, it has good features, such as its integration with other SAP solutions. When integrating with SAP or even the SAP sister company SuccessFactors and other companies SAP has acquired, you also enjoy data features in the SAP Cloud Platform, such as role-based permissions and other characteristics you can import from SAP.

From what I understand, the SAP Cloud Platform is for implementation on AWS or Azure, and it's not meant to be a full-fledged cloud solution, so while using the platform, an area for improvement is that it has fewer offerings and is less flexible when compared to AWS. AWS has a lot more flexibility than the SAP Cloud Platform.

I've also used Azure in college and AWS in between, and I prefer AWS over the SAP Cloud Platform. The only reason I would ever stick with the SAP Cloud Platform is to create applications integrated with SAP or with other companies within SAP, such as SuccessFactors.

When you go into the SAP Cloud Platform web page, it's a bit bland and has relatively limited offerings. For example, there doesn't seem to be in-house MongoDB support, but I realize there's in-house support for the PostgreSQL database, so there are fewer offerings in the SAP Cloud Platform. Yes, you can always go for a database on the actual MongoDB server rather than depending on the offerings of the SAP Cloud Platform. However, it's still better to support MongoDB from the platform, so payment is consolidated, rather than going to a different location to make a payment.

Another room for improvement in the SAP Cloud Platform is the need to create an SAP subaccount if you need to use the platform unless you have an SSO login by Google or if you're using a different identity provider such as Microsoft or Google. Instead of requiring dependency on SAP, it would be good if users could use the SAP Cloud Platform even without a subaccount on SAP. For example, when hosting an application on AWS or Azure, you don't have to create an account in Amazon or Microsoft. You can still do it using Google. You can use almost anything, so I'd like SAP to improve by removing the dependency, particularly the requirement to create an SAP account to use the SAP Cloud Platform.

In the next release of the SAP Cloud Platform, it would be exciting to see more in-house support for many new features, similar to what AWS or Azure offers. It could be different types of systems instances, though that could already be there, so I'm unsure about that. Including MongoDB support on the platform similar to what's offered on AWS would be great because I use MongoDB a lot, and I've even used it for personal tasks, so I'm a bit biased. For example, in AWS, you can have a MongoDB system with 750GB and limits and calls per month. It would be nice if MongoDB support is available in the SAP Cloud Platform.

I've been employed in the company for fifteen months. I was a freshman out of college and employed here, so I've used the SAP Cloud Platform since joining the company.

The SAP Cloud Platform is stable, and I haven't had many issues with it. My use case for the platform has been mostly limited, though. Hence, I'm unsure if that stability I'm experiencing applies to every single scenario, but whatever I've used the SAP Cloud Platform for so far seems pretty stable.

I've never contacted the technical support for the SAP Cloud Platform, as I only have limited experience with it.

As many of our applications require SAP data and integration, we went for the SAP Cloud Platform, though we also have a separate AWS solution.

I don't have information on how straightforward or complex the SAP Cloud Platform setup is because the technical staff did it for the company. I'm a developer who builds and deploys applications, and I also manage the SAP Cloud Platform a bit, but I'm not involved in setting it up.

Cost-wise, I'm unsure of how expensive the SAP Cloud Platform is.

I'm a site developer, so I'm not technical enough to know which version of the SAP Cloud Platform I'm using.

SAP Cloud Platform is deployed on a public cloud, not on-premises. It's on AWS, with BTP.

In the company, the number of people who have access to and use the SAP Cloud Platform is close to ten. Not everyone has access to it. Only a small group of people has access to the SAP Cloud Platform.

The only advice I would give anyone planning to use the SAP Cloud Platform is more of a personal opinion on how I've used the software. I'd advise you only to use it if you have dependencies associated with SAP. Otherwise, please go for a more generic cloud provider such as AWS or Azure. I prefer Azure over AWS because of the more straightforward and more organized UI and console compared to AWS. Azure is more user-friendly than AWS.

My rating for the SAP Cloud Platform is seven out of ten because it's mostly stable, though I have no information on its licensing costs. After all, that's handled by someone else, so I'm unsure if the platform has any hidden charges. Its integration with SAP solutions is impressive, so if you have applications that utilize SAP data, the SAP Cloud Platform is pretty good. I'm taking away three points from the perfect score of ten because the platform still lacks many features and is very basic compared to the offerings from competitors such as AWS and Azure.

My company has a partnership with SAP.

SAP is our ERP system. It handles data relations with sales, finance, and procurement. We also use SAP Analytics Cloud for some analytics purposes.

It's a complex platform, but it has provided valuable support for our operations. However, sometimes it can be difficult to find specific information about the tools and solutions it offers.

We primarily utilize SAP's ERP capabilities.

There is an issue with knowledge transfer. I feel that SAP provides the tools, but after that, you are left on your own. It would be better if they provided more support throughout the usage of their solutions.

We would like to have the ability to export data from the ERP and utilize it in Power BI, for example. It would be helpful to have a connector or a tool that could improve that process.

We have been using it for two years. 

I would also rate the stability a seven.

I would rate the scalability a seven.

The support specialists are often located in different time zones, like India, so it can be challenging to connect with them due to the time differences.

Neutral

It was difficult to set up.

We have some companies using it on-premises, while others are on the cloud. For example, we have SAP Analytics Cloud in the cloud, but the ERP system is on-premises.

We are a large company and currently use SAP extensively. We are currently in the process of comparing all the platforms to understand the features and benefits.

It's expensive compared to the other platforms.

We would suggest considering SAP Analysis Cloud as a potential choice. It offers a better user experience compared to other visualization tools, in my opinion.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I use the solution in my company for mostly integrations and some portal development.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface.

The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

The solution's technical support's ability to respond to calls and resolve queries are areas where improvements are required.

I have been using SAP Cloud Platform for five years. My company operates as a solution provider. My company uses it extensively to provide solutions for our customers.

My company serves the needs of enterprise-sized companies where the product is used.

Medium-sized businesses can also use the product, but they need to see what they need and how they plan to integrate it.

I rate the technical support a seven to eight out of ten.

Neutral

I have experience with SAP Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

If you have people who know how to deploy the product, then it is not at all complex.

The number of days required to deploy the product depends on the part of the solution our company provides.

The product's pricing varies and depends on the customers' needs.

I like SAP Cloud Platform over Microsoft Azure since the former is more well-integrated into our company's environment. Microsoft Azure does have its share of benefits, but it does not align with the space where I work. SAP is a bit faster in our company's environment.

Speaking about a project where SAP Cloud Platform was crucial and used extensively, I would say that in our company, most of our development involved integrating into SAP's business systems.

Speaking about whether the tool is useful for data analysis, I know that most of the tools are used for integration between systems, but we have also written some applications for users to connect to and work with the system.

My company is investigating the AI services offered by the product since it is a fairly new technology on an SAP platform. My company has used the AI part for some of our own research work and to build project reports.

The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it.

In terms of time to market, the product has undergone quite a lot of development, and I feel that it is constantly improving. In general, SAP Cloud Platform has a fairly decent time to market.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

SAP Cloud Platform's installation is not straightforward. You need a person with knowledge to handle it. 

The solution is scalable. 

SAP Cloud Platform is stable. 

The tool's deployment depends on the number of installation points and takes one to two months to complete. 

SAP provides good discounts. 

I rate the product a ten out of ten. It has very good intelligent service and local features. 

We are using SAP Cloud for analytics progress and for planning and other reporting purposes. We also use the cloud for one of the SuccessFactors.

It's an easy tool. We don't have to have an in-house maintenance kind of thing. The maintenance part can be outsourced easily. It's expandable based on the requirements and easy to expand as needed. We don't have to maintain all the infrastructure either.

In person, when the development happens, we were told that it's flexible and customizable. However, sometimes, it's challenging to customize. Maybe this is how the feature works. That's the only thing I have noticed that’s a problem for us.

When we try to implement it, we realized that "Hey, this feature is not working or is not here.” We thought some were basic features. However, if you don't see the features you were expecting, you get disappointed. Some features are still under development even though we've been told they are available. When we implemented it, we realized they were still not there.

I’ve been using the solution for seven or eight years.

I can vouch for the stability. It’s reliable. the performance is good. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn’t crash or freeze.

The solution scales well. It’s easy to expand.

It's easily scalable when we need to expand or increase the capacity. You don't have to worry too much about having a lot of infrastructures. This is beneficial. On a scale of one to ten, I’d rate scaling at a nine.

We have about 700 users on the solution. The whole company is on the solution.

My technical team is talking to SAP directly. However, I haven't seen any escalation for quite some time. It's pretty good support in general.

The initial setup is straightforward and not overly complex.

We only need a small team to maintain the solution.

I’m not sure how much the solution costs overall.

We have a partnership with SAP.

We are using the most recent version of the solution.

My advice would be for people to know their business case. SAP, not necessarily all the time, is suitable based on the scale. It's good for a medium and a large company one day.

I’d rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The team was using it internally as a sort-of demo. It was collecting the results instead of the customer doing it himself. 

They came in the beginning and said it's easy to implement. The solution was good for both very little or lots of development.

The ease of use and the fast deployment times were what the team really liked about the product.

The setup was straightforward. 

The solution can scale.

It's very stable.

While it was good for a small entity, it was not ideal for a large enterprise. 

I don't recall dealing with a lack of features. 

I used the solution for about a year.

The stability was good. There were no bugs or glitches and it didn't crash or freeze. 

The solution can scale. That's not an issue.

We had ten users on the product.

For us, we used it as a test environment and did not use the solution extensively.

We were only demoing the product and therefore did not really use technical support.

The team was also familiar with Oracle Cloud Platform.

The solution was easy to set up. It wasn't overly complex or difficult. I'd rate it at a five out of five in terms of ease of setup. It was very simple. 

It took us about two weeks to get everything up and running. We were able to do a demo with the customer as well.

We had two users for the deployment and had maybe three or four people handling any maintenance requirements. 

We handled the entire implementation in-house. We did not need any assistance from any outside consultants or integrators. 

It is possible to get an ROI if you use this solution.

I'm not sure what the licensing costs were. However, it wasn't overly expensive. I'd rate it 3.5 out of five in terms of affordability.

I'm not sure if other options were looked at.

We weren't really a customer or a partner. We were testing the product.

I was not the person directly using the solution. It was used a year ago in my company. I was collecting the opinions from the team who's using such a thing against other computation options like Oracle or DataMix.

For security purposes, we used the on-premises deployment. 

My advice to anyone who is doing such a thing right now is not to listen to the old reputation of SAP in terms of complexity and difficulty in deployment. We fast-tracked. We didn't use many resources. We didn't have the complexity. In my opinion, they should try it at least for a testing period. SAP is famous for one thing, which didn't change, which is its stability. 

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The main purpose is migration. Right now, clients are migrating from hosting services in a private cloud to SAP services in the cloud.

We just sell the service to clients. I understand the architecture and I’m able to propose an architecture to clients.

We have a client that had an AIX and we’ve put in a proposal to migrate those services to Linux with a cyber database. We will use GCP migration tools to do that.

The HANA replications are very useful.

When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this.

We’d like the product to be like a web service and allow us to download an application on the computer to operate the systems.

I’ve used the solution since 1998. It’s been a long while. I’ve used it in the past 12 months.

The solution is easy to scale. We have clients that have from 500 all the way up to 4,000 users. The majority are ERP users. The majority of the clients we work with use SAP as their core business solution. They increase the use depending on their business needs.

We previously only used solutions that were deployed in-house. In terms of corporate solutions, I’ve only mainly dealt with SAP.

The initial setup was pretty simple. I’d rate it four out of five in terms of ease of deployment. It’s very user-friendly, which makes it straightforward.

I don’t directly work on the implementation. I work in presales developing the architecture.

How many people you need to deploy and maintain the solution depends on the landscape. It varies.

An integrator handled the initial setup.

We have seen an ROI. I’d rate it at a four out of five in terms of the return a user can expect.

The prices are very similar from solution to solution. Microsoft Dynamics, however, is cheaper than SAP or Oracle. While SAP is expensive, it is a very good product.

We did look at Oracle e-Business Suite. I know a bit about it, however, my knowledge is not that deep.

I’m a cloud architect. I’m in pre-sales. My company is a partner with SAP.

I’d advise potential users to use the most standard version of SAP services and to use older S/4 HANA services.

SAP solutions are pretty good as long as they are standard solutions and do not have a lot of data.

We’re using the latest version of the solution. I don’t know the exact version number.

We use private, public, and hybrid clouds. I work with various clouds, including AWS, Azure, and IBM.

I’d rate the solution an eight out of ten. It fulfills our client’s business needs.

Our primary use case is to support our SAP integrated business planning solution, called IBP. It's a cloud-based solution that we have in our private cloud for SAP. It will push and pull the data from the IBP to our on-premises ERP and analytics systems.

One of the best features of this solution is that it is web-based and you can log in and work on it from anywhere.

This solution can connect to multiple sources including Oracle, ODBC, OLD-DB and most of the cloud systems. 

I would like to see more and better support for data transformations. A transformation is able to change data from one format to another format. In the current solution, pivoting data or dealing with multiple levels of transformation is not supported. Those options are missing.

We have been using this solution for seven or eight months.

The stability is very good. Whatever we have is stable.

There are no issues with scalability and we can scale as we like. This solution is only used by my team and we have two to three people using it.

We are definitely planning to increase usage because our company is moving everything to the new architecture for SAP cloud-based solutions. 

We have used technical support for this solution several times and it is very nice. They come back with responses immediately and the cloud platform management with them is very nice as well. The upgrades are smooth and we have them every three months. They don't have any issues after the upgrades, and whenever issues do arise, they respond properly.

We used BODS as we moved to SAP IBP we were forced to move to CPI/DS.

The initial setup is very simple because everything is there in the public cloud and all you need to have is one small agent installed on your local system. This took us one or two days.

The total deployment was longer because we have a lot of data flows in and out from the integrated system. This took us at most between four and five months to complete.

We used consultants to assist us with the deployment. We had to migrate to SAP and the consultants were very good. It went live, on time, and the quality was very good.

We didn't have another choice as it is mandatory with SAP IBP.

This solution is updated automatically every three months.

My advice for anybody who is migrating from BODS to Cda is to ensure that whatever was done in BODS is capable of working in Cda. There are a lot of transformations missing. The simple ones are there but the complex ones are not possible. So, people should be very careful to make sure that they can achieve everything. We were able to do almost everything. We did have some issues initially, but our consultants are good.

This is a good solution but I would say that it is still premature. They are still adding features.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.